I can’t help but feel that all of this is divine providence.

It was always meant to be us.

More and more I truly feel I’m willing to do what’s required of me. Whatever that may be.

I’m not sure intelligence matters as much as moral clarity.

And as Bitcoiners we have that.

You open Nostr

Videos of people making fresh fruit and vegetables in their garden.

Like minded builders, leaders, poets and visionaries are pathing the roads towards a better future.

The government is ridiculed, questioned and accountable for most of the bullshit we see.

Videos of beautiful artwork, projects and events.

The news is seen as pure entertainment, clickbait, propaganda and avoided.

We know exactly what is broken with the system economically and ideologically.

We understand that Capitalism has never existed in the age of central banking.

We know that X fucking sucks.

We stay on #nostr

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I love this, the metaphor of growing things is very telling. If you want any force beyond you to change, you have to cultivate it, not impose yourself on it.

A Pattern Language is already on my list, but I wanted to ask what your favorite Christopher Alexander book is?

Vervaekes series is great. I think about this a lot. In my head I call it “conditions of emergence”.

You can’t make things happen by directly focusing on them in the specific, you need to create the environment for them to emerge.

Anything natural requires this. It’s also the only way to cultivate what is authentic behaviour. Create the conditions of sincerity & people will emerge as they are. This is also the easiest way to understand any behavioural outcome from an existing system, to study the conditions/ space/ environment it creates. It also speak a lot to Christopher Alexander’s work on why the way physical spaces are built (cities, buildings, homes etc)

I was listening to Episode 6 of Vervaeke's "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", in which he talks about the distinction between cause and condition. A billiard ball can move another one by transferring energy through a collision. But in order for that *event* to happen, many conditions have to be true — there has to be space on the other side of the receiving ball, for example. Conditions are not events, they are things that make certain events more or less likely to occur.

This is akin to something I often repeat from McLuhan et al, which is that "we shape our tools instrumentally, and our tools shape us formally" by creating a new environment which we inhabit. This maps onto Vervaeke's point in that the use of tools is action, and the conditions that tools create influence subsequent action.

He also notes that science is often preoccupied with events at the expense of conditions. This jives with my observation that we think mostly about the ability of tools to implement our will, rather than the conditions that arise from the presence of those tools.

Yay. Does this mean I now own Bitcoin again???

I think I've set it up? 😬

My first post here, it's about time I took this place for a spin!

Thanks for the reminder nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgz5cw5zlsg6lha0s645wcx5yqve6fegfqgdpfttwym0vwdxquzfjvldatcp , Just listened to your pod with John Knopf, loved it. 🙌

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

privacy is not freedom.

a guy in "solitary "has privacy.

a "wall" around you doesn't make you free... even if you built the wall.

There is a surprisingly large YouTube genre of Internet personalities “reacting” to great songs and albums that they have ostensibly never heard before

Easily one of my favorite internet rabbit holes

Everyone sees themselves as the victim in their story.

Not me.

I take ownership of everything that happens to me.

If someone hurts me, it’s because I allowed them close enough to do so.

If no one helps me, it’s because I’ve chosen to stand on my own.

Nothing outside of me has the power to stop me.

All resistance is internal, and what I carry inside is what I project outward.

Everything is within my control because everything begins within me.

A network is either permissionless or authoritarian. Open or closed. Censorship-resistant or censored.

Open networks inevitably run into the issue of spam and impersonation. Sybill attacks, DDoS attacks, resource exhaustion, and worse.

It's tempting to solve these issues in a centralized (read: authoritarian) way. But this just introduces new problems, turning the open network into a closed one.

These issues can't be solved perfectly. However, a clever combination of PoW + WoT will solve most of them, and yes, I include sats in this equation implicitly, because sats are just difficulty-adjusted PoW.

Identity has to be cryptographic, which means taken and defended, as opposed to given. Keys, not accounts.

Money has to be money proper, which means a bearer instrument as opposed to credit linked to an account. Cash, not credit.

Keys and sats have the power to usher in a new era of the internet. We must be careful to not repeat the mistakes of the past, however. It will take time. But it's fundamentally possible, and we're slowly but surely getting there. Key by key. Sat by sat. Npub by npub.

The Web is dead. Long live the web 🤙